Dividing Countries Into ‘Tight Cultures’ And ‘Loose Cultures’

“‘Tight’ refers to nations that have strong social norms and low tolerance for deviation from those norms, whereas another term, ‘loose,’ refers to nations with weak social norms and a high tolerance for deviation from them.” Researchers in a recent study “found that countries such as Japan, Korea, Singapore and Pakistan are much tighter whereas countries such as the Ukraine, Israel, Brazil and the United States are looser.”